Savory Cities Web Site Re-launch

For the past several months we've been hard at work creating the new Savory Cities web site. What is Savory Cities you ask? It's the combination of our Savory New York, Savory San Francisco, Savory Chicago and soon Los Angeles and Seattle restaurant guides. We designed this new site to make it easy to quickly locate information about each city's best restaurants, but also to make finding out about new restaurants and old gems enjoyable and informative.

New Features

We've added new features to help make it easier to keep track of restaurants you want to try and ones where you've recently dined. On every restaurant page you'll now find an "I Want to Eat Here" button. Click this button to add a restaurant to your "Savory Queue" so you can easily remember where you want to go next time you find yourself wondering, "where should we eat tonight?" You'll also notice an "I've Eaten Here" button that let's you share food and service ratings and a personal review.

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More Videos

Savory Cities now has over 200 editorial video profiles featuring many of the top chefs and restaurants in the country. Reknowned chefs like Charlie Trotter, Thomas Keller and Joël Robuchon, as well as local heroes like Joey Campanero, Andrew Carmellini and Anita Lo, tell you about their restaurants directly so you can decide if their place is right for you or for a particular occasion.

More Restaurant Listings

Over the past two years we've personally researched information for thousands of restaurants. Our listings have expanded significantly, but we've remained selective so that you'll only find noteworthy restaurants on Savory. We add new restaurants to the site every day so if one of your favorites is missing please let us know.

Fresh Perspective

In addition to providing detailed restaurant information and scores of chef-narrated videos for each city, we felt it was important to provide perspective on what's happening in the local dining scene. Starting with New York we'll be regularly publishing articles and guides by noted local experts from the food world and beyond. Writers Ira Robbins and Elizabeth S. Bennett start things off this week with two great articles about Brooklyn dining and Tonkastsu, respectively.

New Cities: LA and Seattle

In addition to our new site design, we've also been busy compiling information for hundreds of top restaurants in Los Angeles and Seattle. Our video producers have visited dozens of top restaurants in each city and we will soon unveil Savory guides for these two great food cities. New videos featuring Suzanne Goin of Lucques and A.O.C., Josiah Citrin of Melisse, Seattle super chef Tom Douglas and other great west coast chefs are coming soon.

As it is with most new web sites, we'll be fixing small bugs and making improvements here and there along the way. We'd love to have your feedback so please send questions, comments and suggestions to newsite@savorycities.com.

Yours in good eating,
Chris, Jennifer and the rest of the Savory Cities team

This Thursday, February 28th, StreetWise Partners presents Taste of Success, a food and wine tasting event. Funds raised from the event help StreetWise Partners fulfill their mission of building mentoring relationships between low-income individuals and volunteer business professionals to develop workplace skills and employment networks as the bridge to a successful career. Participating restaurants include Beppe, Essex, I Tre Merli, Sigiri, Cowgirl, Avra Estiatorio and Mercadito. Visit the StreetWise Partners web site to purchase tickets.

Savory New York

Every Thursday we'll be emailing you the Savory One-sheet, a handy summary of New York restaurant highlights from the previous week. If you'd prefer not to receive our weekly update, opting out is easy. Simply click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.

We've added a ton of new New York videos over the past few weeks, including Lower East Side standby Stanton Social, Flatiron Tapas hotspot Boqueria, Theatre District favorites Angus McIndoe, Sardi's, Carmine's and Natsumi, and a  TriBeCa standouts Dylan Prime, Rosanjin and Vietcafe.

Rock critic Ira Robbins extols the virtues of Brooklyn's independent-minded dining scene.

Writer Elizabeth S. Bennett walks you through the why and how of Katsu-Hama's excellent Tonkastsu.

Top New York City chefs share their restaurant picks. See where Wylie Dufresne of wd-50, Marco Moreira of Tocqueville and 15 East, Anne Burrell of Centro Vinoteca, Brad Farmerie of Public and The Monday Room, Anita Lo of Annisa, King Phojanakong of Kuma Inn and others are eating.

Savory Chicago

Get restaurant recommendations from top Chicago chefs Bruce Sherman of North Pond, Jason Hammel of Lula Cafe, Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand of Tru and Graham Elliott Bowles of Avenues.

Savory San Francisco

Check out chef profiles from  Nate Appleman of A16, Lissa Doumani and Hiro Sone of Ame and Terra, Laurence Jossel of NOPA and Chris Cosentino of Incanto to see their restaurant recommendations.